This is From John Jackson, LOC.
Well, here we are about a month out from our last class, and web sites are being built, companies have been created, and the people that attended are getting everything in place, with some putting deals together already. I thought this would be a good time to pass along the Crab Story to the ATL attendees, as well as everyone that reads the newsletters.
A couple of years ago I heard my pastor tell this story, and I thought it was so right on that it stuck with me. Unfortunately, I can't credit the source, other than my pastor. Maybe it's been told so many times that no one knows who wrote it. Nevertheless, here goes:
A man was walking down a long pier and saw a man sitting on the side with a bucket. As he walked closer, he saw that the bucket had crabs in it. He watched the man pull up a rope with a cage on it and it had another crab in it. The fisherman put the crab in the bucket with the rest and lowered the cage back down. As the bystander watched, he saw one of the crabs crawling up the bucket and seemed to be getting fairly close to the edge.
"Excuse me, sir." said the bystander. "I think one of your crabs is about to get out."
"Oh, don't worry about him" said the fisherman "the other crabs will pull him back down if he gets to close to escaping."
So what's the point of this story? That's how humans are. For those of you that attended the class in ATL, I wonder how many of you heard negative things from people that heard you were going to ATL for a 4 day class? For those of you that subscribe to my newsletters, I wonder how many of you are wanting desperately to break the chains that hold you to a 9-5 job that you hate, and how many co-workers laugh at you if you talk about breaking free?
I remember many years ago working for a place that I hated, and there were a couple of us that would talk about different ideas we had, and it's really interesting to look back now at how many of the people we worked with would laugh at us as we talked about different ideas we had, whether they be ideas for inventions, companies, or just general ideas. The people we worked with were crabs. As I started to make progress putting "my business" together, I remember people trying to pull me back down into the bucket, but I had to escape. They could rot in the bucket if they wanted, but not me.
The bottom line is, you will face plenty of crabs in your life as you try to make accomplishments and make something for yourself and break the mold of the status quo. People will try to pull you down, even saying negative things about you, whether they're true or not, just to try to make themselves feel better, because they don't have the ambition to get out of the bucket.
Don't be a crab....
Well, here we are about a month out from our last class, and web sites are being built, companies have been created, and the people that attended are getting everything in place, with some putting deals together already. I thought this would be a good time to pass along the Crab Story to the ATL attendees, as well as everyone that reads the newsletters.
A couple of years ago I heard my pastor tell this story, and I thought it was so right on that it stuck with me. Unfortunately, I can't credit the source, other than my pastor. Maybe it's been told so many times that no one knows who wrote it. Nevertheless, here goes:
A man was walking down a long pier and saw a man sitting on the side with a bucket. As he walked closer, he saw that the bucket had crabs in it. He watched the man pull up a rope with a cage on it and it had another crab in it. The fisherman put the crab in the bucket with the rest and lowered the cage back down. As the bystander watched, he saw one of the crabs crawling up the bucket and seemed to be getting fairly close to the edge.
"Excuse me, sir." said the bystander. "I think one of your crabs is about to get out."
"Oh, don't worry about him" said the fisherman "the other crabs will pull him back down if he gets to close to escaping."
So what's the point of this story? That's how humans are. For those of you that attended the class in ATL, I wonder how many of you heard negative things from people that heard you were going to ATL for a 4 day class? For those of you that subscribe to my newsletters, I wonder how many of you are wanting desperately to break the chains that hold you to a 9-5 job that you hate, and how many co-workers laugh at you if you talk about breaking free?
I remember many years ago working for a place that I hated, and there were a couple of us that would talk about different ideas we had, and it's really interesting to look back now at how many of the people we worked with would laugh at us as we talked about different ideas we had, whether they be ideas for inventions, companies, or just general ideas. The people we worked with were crabs. As I started to make progress putting "my business" together, I remember people trying to pull me back down into the bucket, but I had to escape. They could rot in the bucket if they wanted, but not me.
The bottom line is, you will face plenty of crabs in your life as you try to make accomplishments and make something for yourself and break the mold of the status quo. People will try to pull you down, even saying negative things about you, whether they're true or not, just to try to make themselves feel better, because they don't have the ambition to get out of the bucket.
Don't be a crab....
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